Talk:Three-Day Week

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From personal memory, there was also a rolling programme of power cuts and Television services were suspended after 9:30pm.

I was only 15, so do not remember clearly if this was part of the Three Day Week period or at another time close to it. Can anyone confirm this and provide more precise info for a page edit?

Definately, I remember maps being published in newspapers indicating which areas would get power cuts on which days (I was 19). If somebody could find a copy of these, it would make a great picture for this article. This article needs lots more content. I remember factories working either Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday or Thursday-Friday-Saturday depending on the power-cut rota. The phrase "Three-Day Week" is still thrown around, but most people are now too young to remember it and it is slowly getting forgotten. TiffaF 09:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] greater efficency

I have heard, but I don't have any proof at all, that productivity actually went up during the 3 day week as everyone was no doubt working as hard as they could when they were there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.254.77.5 (talk) 12:27, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

Yes, I was taught this at school as well by an older teacher who remembered the events very well. I have no citation for this, and I wasn't alive at the time, but it would be very interesting if someone could find more about this. Parkinson's Law about work filling the time available might well apply here, it could be that we spread work out the more time we're given to do it, instead of just getting more done. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.146.47.250 (talk) 01:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] life on mars

power cuts are mentioned regularly during the BBC series set in 1973.